Zephaniah — #1338 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zephaniah

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,254 babies named Zephaniah between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zephaniah currently holds the #1338 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 170 babies received it in a single year. Zephaniah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 456 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zephaniah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,319 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Zephaniah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 294 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Zephaniah in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zephaniah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,254 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.